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Information Literacy (LIBR 2100)

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Video: Searching Twitter

"Twitter is a service for friends, family, and coworkers to communicate and stay connected through the exchange of quick, frequent messages. People post Tweets, which may contain photos, videos, links and up to 140 characters of text. These messages are posted to your profile, sent to your followers, and are searchable on Twitter search."

Twitter Help Center. (2016). New user FAQs. Retrieved June 4, 2016 from https://support.twitter.com/articles/13920#

 


MountLibrary. (2019). Searching Twitter [video file]. Retrieved from https://youtu.be/zr--pCfM9w8

Video: Searching Facebook

  • "Facebook is a for-profit corporation and online social networking service...After registering to use the site, users can create a user profile, add other users as "friends", exchange messages, post status updates and photos, share videos, use various apps, and receive notifications when others update their profiles. Additionally, users may join common-interest user groups organized by workplace, school, or other characteristics, and categorize their friends into lists..."

Facebook. (2016, June 4). In Wikipedia, The Free Encyclopedia. Retrieved June 4, 2016, from https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Facebook&oldid=723680197



MountLibrary. (2016, May 16). Searching Facebook [video file]. https://youtu.be/y918MKasBGg

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